Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-04-30
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TER-OCEA
A COY .cuss Is CLEVELAND.
How He Can Say One Thing and
Mean Another.
Special Correspondents Of tho Ixss.4ocEAxl
WASHINGTON, April 25.-" Your can.
didate I cannot be-" was the cry Of that
shrewd and successful politician, Samuel
J. Tilden. He was constantly playing
the coy maiden in politics, and as often
as he refused the political crown, so
often did it come again to him. Follow
ing in his footsteps comes Cleveland the
First, saying: "Your candidate l can.
not be. Irefuse a second term" There
upon the Democratic journals through
out the country set up the wall, "What
will we do without our little Moses?
How can we ever get into the real cory
goodness of the promised land of spoils
if we have no little Moses TO play the
magician for US and successfully pose
as a reformer?" Hence, you see they
will force the nomination upon the coy /
old nincompoop and compel him to
serve. Bah 1t stinketh in ones n~ostrils.
I told you a few days ago how Knapp,
of the St. Louis Republican, worked for
the appointment of Col. Morrison, Of
Illinois, to a place On the interstate
commerce commission, because Kpapp1
wanted Morrison here as his news gath.
erer. Well, Morrison interviewed the
president and Cleveland told him that
he is not and will not be q candidate for
denomination. T%hereupon, Knapp
sends a long special to his paper, say
ing: "The president has told a Demo.
cratic senator from the west" 80 and
so. But Morrison is not q senator and
never was. Knapp simply uses that
form of expression IN order to mislead
people from his source of information.
See?.
Cleveland did tell Morrison that he
will not be a candidate. He did profess
the utmost honesty and sincerity, but
bless you, he didn't lea a word of it.
He is shrewdly playing the Tilden racket.
1t is transparent. Tilden did it we'll and
some one else may play that trick fifty
years hence upon a new generation, but
for Cleveland to try to impose upon the
dear people with a chestnut is too ut.
terly too translucent. His every ap-
pointment ean denomination. He
has loaded down the territories with
New York politicians who will work for
Cleveland. He tried to foist upon this
district a negro New Yorker who would
work for Cleveland. He has sent his
personal friends INTO every crook and
Granny in the country to fix up delegates
to the national convention of his party
for the denomination Of Cleveland.
That is what he has done and is doing,
and if that don't mean C~levelandism
then all political signs fail IN this kind
OF political weather. 1t is barely posi-
{ BILE that he sees that his chances are ex-
ceedingly slim and that he has the FORE
sight to see that denomination is impos-
sible, but that is not likely. Congressman
Springer says that he hopes that the
president may change his mind. John
S. Oberly. civil service commissioner,
a y ct don't believe the report.
Cleveland never said he was not a can
didate, for he is" Col. Villas says, "The
president is not given to f~orestalling
events. Inever heard him express him.
self as represented" Others speak in a
like manner and they generally discredit
the statement Or else think the president
has been lying a little. No one can tell
just what to think of it, but old polite
ians laugh a little as they refer to the
story. Col. Lamont says nothing excert
"The president can speak for himself.
I know nothing Of his plans except
from day to day, and then only On the
public business" Then all the CORES.
pondents tickle themselves and smile,
for they all know that Lamont knows
nll that Cleveland knows and does more
than half Of his planning and thinking
for HIM politically. Col. Dom Piatt, the
brilliant journalist, says: "Some pres.
idents seek denomination one way and
some another. Cleveland's way is the
coy way. Maybe it will VIM" From
no II ome any expression of conf
dence in the rumor, or if the rumor he
believed then the general belief is that
the president has been knocking the
rough edges off Of the truth and polish
ing it up to suit his convenience. Gen.
T'yner says, "The Democrats may take
him at his word and how mad he would
he thei.."
"Our presidents" says All old WASH
ington CORRESPONDENT, " are blessed with
enough Of the ordinary humanity so as
to make their peculiarities noticeable"
Gen. Grant was known as the eternal
sphinx who was proof against the inter-
viewer, and yet, when with u crowd Of